Bug 1487294 (CVE-2017-13710) - CVE-2017-13710 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in the setup_group function
Summary: CVE-2017-13710 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in the setup_group function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-13710
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1483603 1483604 1483605
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-31 14:49 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:23:24 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-08-31 14:49:27 UTC 
The setup_group function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows  attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a group section that is too small.

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=0c54f69295208331faab9bc5e995111a35672f9b
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-08-31 14:51:57 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1483604]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1483603]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1483605]
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